Directorist

Directorist costs $379 once for 1 site. The annual plan costs $129 a year, so the lifetime license pays for itself after 36 months. Over five years you save $266 compared with renewing every year.

Yes, if you run a business directory, a classified ads site or a job board for years and want the paid extensions without a yearly bill. The lifetime license costs $379 once for 1 site, the yearly plan $129, so the one-time price pays off after about 36 months. Updates: For life. Support: For life.

The plan pays off most when you sell listings, because pricing plans, paid listings and claim listing are the extensions that turn a directory into a business. Agencies compare the tiers first: 1 site for $379, 5 sites for $579, 20 sites for $749. The pricing page names a money-back guarantee of 14 days, but an older extensions page excludes lifetime deals from refunds, and wpWax has announced a move to yearly plans. Test the free plugin with your theme first and confirm the refund terms in writing before you pay.

The free Directorist on wordpress.org is a complete directory plugin: several directory types on one site, custom fields per type, a drag and drop builder for the submission form, the listing cards and the single listing page, search with filters and radius search, a map view, front end submission and a user dashboard. For a small local directory that does not charge for listings, this is often enough.

The paid plans add the premium extensions and directory themes. Pricing plans and paid listings let businesses pay for a place, claim listing lets owners take over their entry, and further extensions bring bookings, private messages between users, social login and more search options. The lifetime plan includes all current extensions and themes.

Most business directory plugins for WordPress renew every year. wpWax sells Directorist on its own pricing page next to the yearly plans as a lifetime plan, paid once. Updates: For life. Support: For life. The tiers: 1 site for $379, 5 sites for $579, 20 sites for $749.

Keep two points in mind. The vendor has announced that it will move to yearly plans and that lifetime offers may then only return for a limited time at a higher price; existing licenses stay valid. And the largest lifetime tier stops at 20 sites, while the yearly Agency plan has no site limit.

After the purchase you download the extensions and themes from your account, install them next to the free plugin and activate the license; your directories, fields and listings stay in place. Create a directory type, add the fields your listings need, build the submission form and the listing page in the builder, set up the search form with filters and connect the map. If you sell listings, create the pricing plans and test a paid submission with a second account. The price was checked on Oct 29, 2026 on the vendor pricing page.

Sites

1 site

Updates

For life

Support

For life

Money back guarantee

14 days

Taken from the vendor’s pricing page, like the price above.

Active installs

20,000+ free version on wordpress.org

Rating

4.6 out of 5 on wordpress.org

Current version

8.10.5

Last update

Oct 18, 2026

Figures from the public plugin directory, checked on Oct 21, 2026. wordpress.org listing(opens in a new tab)